50% off! Blue Waters Rancho Santa Fe Artist’s Estate Sale Mid Century

Please note that these prices are subject to change for any reason at any time!  Sorry - it's just that sometimes we make mistakes! 

Amazing Estate sale family of artists!  

Artists Include William C Grauer - we have a least 20 paintings 

Mid Century enamel work 

Eames chair 1952 

Brutalist coffee table 

Vintage Clothes Silk Persian Rugs 

Ed Wheelen Cartoonist 

Natalie Grauer Artist 

Kitchen 

Tonala Plate $38

Mexican Tin Mirror $68

Library 

Caprice by Castleton $5 each 

Wedgewood 

villeroy boch Naif $20 each 

Living Room 

Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore 1876 Bronze  Plaque - Rare and Real $300

Large museum quality ammonite Mexico - with all authenticity and provenance $3500

Eames chair 1952 LCM $900

WIlliam Grauer 

William C. Grauer was a painter, muralist, and art teacher active in Cleveland for nearly 60 years.  Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in 1914 and saw service in France during World War I.  Coming to Cleveland as a free-lance artist in 1927, he married Natalie Eynon (1888-1955), a fellow native Philadelphian and artist with whose career his own became intertwined. 

Invited to contribute murals to the President's Cottage at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., in 1932, they returned to found and co-direct the Old White Art Colony, School and Gallery there during the summers from 1934-40.  During the same period they also started the art department at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University.  Grauer painted murals for the West Virginia exhibitions in both the Chicago Century of Progress (1933) and the New York World's Fair (1939). 

Residents of Ambleside Dr. near University Circle, the Grauers also maintained a summer home and studio in E. Claridon, Geauga County.  They had 2 daughters, Blanche E. and Gretchen.  Following the death of his wife, Grauer married another Cleveland College art instructor, Dorothy Turobinski, in 1964.  He retired from Western Reserve University as associate professor of art in 1966 but continued to paint and to teach privately.  Increasingly abstract in style in his later years, his work had been exhibited in 55 May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Willliam Grauer is the uncle of the main character of this estate sale and we have appx 20 of his paintings 

Large Abstract $1000

Mexico Large watercolors Watercolors $1250

Large Acrylic on Masonite $1000

Living Room 

Glass coffee table mid Century $175

Large mineral specimen Table top pink calcite quartz $600

3 mid century cream colored fabric sofas $500 each

MId century enamel Bowls artisan $100 each

Stephen Rothman Coin Award Recipient The Stephen Rothman Memorial Award is presented annually for distinguished service to investigative cutaneous medicine.  The recipient of this award has made major scientific achievements and excelled as a teacher and recruiter of outstanding dermatologists.  The recipient is also an individual who has distinctly altered the course and image of dermatology or its allied fields.  It is the Society’s highest award.

19th Century Sterling SIlver Kirk & Sons Reposee baby cup $400

Jade tree $45

Wedgewood Green Jasperware $100

1960’s Royal Delft Blue Vase peacock $25

Siriano Champagne Glasses $10 each

Waterford Fluted Michele Fluted champagne glasses $25 each

Irish Dresden Ram $40

Baccarat Polar bear $75

Fragment Stagg Field Wall in Chicago $10 

Lladro Bunny $25

Nao Lladro Lady feeding rabbits $60

Tonalo Owls - Chip on one $25

Large white branch coral specimen $500

White Acoma pot with animals in black - need to see signature

Picasso Marble - picasso jasper carved bear Zuni $85

A Maurice Burke Tulip Chairs black 4 $150 each 

Table $200

Mid Century Wood Pole lamp $50

Our Main character studied enamels with 

Harold Edward Winter (October 14, 1908 - July 22, 1976) was an American artist who worked primarily in enamels. Known also as H. Edward Winter and Edward Winter, he wrote several books on enameling and produced enamel murals for churches and the Section of Painting and Sculpture.

Ed Winter Ceramic 

Winter created abstract compositions with occasional botanical or biomorphic elements. He employed copper, steel, silver, or aluminum as his substrate and sometimes used foil inlays in addition to the enamel colors. The works ranged from household tableware to large wall plaques. In the 1950s, Thelma started working in enamel as well, and the pair worked both independently and collaboratively on various projects.[3] They created a number of sizable enamel murals, including eleven commissioned by churches.[3] Winter wrote Enamel Art on Metals (1958), Enameling for Beginners (1962), and Enamel Painting Techniques (1970), as well as many articles on his medium. The first of these was praised as an important book from a master of the craft when it first appeared.[4]

During World War II, while serving as a technical sergeant, Winter received a special commission from the U.S. Army to make educational posters.[1]

In the 1960s, Winter offered a kit for making enameled aluminum jewelry.[5]

His work is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Butler Museum of Art, and other institutions.[1]

Overman Polo swivel Chair $275 each 

Vintage scandinavian Rya Rug Swedish 4 X 6  $400

Salvador Dali - Mock Turtle Artist: Salvador Dali

Title: The Mock Turtle's Story

Origin: Spain, 1969

Medium: Etching on Paper

Dimensions: 21x29in

Condition: Excellent

Additional Information: An etching of two turtles and a butterfly flying above. Fairy-like silhouetted figures fly around with splatters of ink creating implied movement. The piece is colorful and vibrant with a balance of black and white. The print has a printed signature and a hand signature in graphite. The edition number

$400

Lane Side table $125

Dona Rosa Black Madonna $150 

Daniel Gluck Brutalist Coffee table $3500 

Ammonite Nautilus  from Mexico with provenance $3500

Calcite  - $1500

Smokey Black  quartz - irradiated Arkansas - popular in the 1970s - 1980s $2200 each 

20” wide $2200

Dining table - barley twist $500

Chairs with black upholstery $75 each

Corner cabinet $300

William knabe baby  grand piano 117148 $2500

Rosemary Taylor gnome pot $100 

Boys Room 

Tile Table $200

Mid Century Fish Mosaic wall PIece enamel fish mid century $100 see signature

Scalloped bottom mirror - John Widdicomb $50 

Secretary desk escritore $500

Mid Century Drapes $100

Persian Rug - Sarouk 

Antique Navajo Yei Bei Chi Wall tapestry Rug $298

Ping Pong $100

Pool Table $500

White lamp Vintage $25

19th Century Revival  Trunk Cabinet carved Connecticut Sunflower Chest $400

Antique Colonial Revival Sunflower Chest.Sunflower chests and cupboards were once called “Hartford” or “Connecticut” furnishings. The central panel is often decorated with three flowers on a central stem, one with rounded and two with dog-tooth-shaped pedals, flanked by asymmetrical fluted tulips.

Cherished by collectors and historians since the late 1800s, Sunflower chests and cupboards were once referred to as “Hartford” or “Connecticut” furnishings. They captured the public’s attention with bold designs and connections to the nostalgic “Pilgrim” era. The centennial celebrations of 1876 spurred a fascination with antiques, which gave rise to a market for these objects and inspired the Colonial Revival, a style popular in mainstream America for most of the twentieth century. Legendary early collectors and American tastemakers, like Connecticut’s Emily Seymour Goodwin Holcombe (1852-1923), Henry Wood Erving (1851-1941), and Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) extolled the virtues of colonial America by collecting and celebrating artifacts related to an idealized past, including so-called Sunflower furniture from the Connecticut River Valley. In fact, Erving once owned this chest; it was later sold to Nutting and then donated to the Wadsworth in 1924. 

These early connoisseurs imbued this grouping of furniture with meaning and myth that still persists today. With approximately eighty-five identified examples, Sunflower chests and cupboards are the largest assemblage of seventeenth century Connecticut casework known. This joined furniture was so named because of the motif on the carved central panel; however, these carved stylized flowers, laid out with a rule and compass, are probably not sunflowers, but instead may be generic floral representations. Although there are variations within the group, most often the central panel is decorated with three flowers on a central stem, one with rounded and two with dog-tooth shaped pedals, flanked by asymmetrical fluted tulips. The chest’s overall aesthetic—created through applied moldings and turnings, low-relief carving, and paint—reflects the transmission of late Medieval and Renaissance design. The use of similar floral motifs can be found on textiles, silver, and other crafts influenced by the late Mannerist style which was popular in England a century earlier and became pervasive in the Americas.

Royal Vienna Style Black Vase and Lady $250 

Painting Lady in Pink Dress Black Hat Large $500

Basement 

Surfboard - Chemistry Surfboards Al Merrick $300

A short and stubby tri-fin: the biscuit design was developed with Rob Machado in 2006. Like Rob, the Biscuit rides free and easy in the smallest surf and catches waves like boards a foot longer. Voted SIMA board of the year for 2008. Order your biscuit 3″ to 6″ shorter than you are tall. “…foam is your friend…don’t be scared of it. A little bit of extra foam here and there is good for the soul… and your surfing.” – Rob Machado

VIntage Standing Easle $100 

Patio 

VIntage Brown Jordan Lounge Tamiami Chaise 

Brown Jordan Chairs $100 each

DAY 2 

Martin Saxophone Alto Committee 2 Lion 1939-1940  $700 

Loads of Cartoon by Ed Wheelen 

Originals - he was a relative of the family 

Edgar Stow Wheelan (1888–1966), who signed his work Ed Wheelan, was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Minute Movies, satirizing silent films, and his comic book Fat and Slat, published by EC Comics. He was one of the earliest writer-artists to introduce daily narrative continuity and cinematic techniques to comic strips.

Born in San Francisco, Wheelan was the son of costume designer Albertine Randall, who drew the 1920s strip The Dumbunnies, and businessman Fairfax Henry Wheelan, a political reformer.[1]

Comic strips

Installment of Wheelan's comic strip Old Man Experience.

Prepared at the Thacher School and Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduating from Cornell University in 1911, Wheelan found employment at the San Francisco Examiner, moving on to the New York American, where he drew an eight-column comic strip about sports.

For William Randolph Hearst's King Features, he created the strip Midget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst. To replace Midget Movies, Hearst launched The Thimble Theatre, drawn by Elzie Crisler Segar.

Wheelan continued to mock movies in his Minute Movies for the George Matthew Adams Service. He drew the two-tiered Minute Movies from the early 1920s until 1935, developing one of the characters into a spin-off strip, Roy McCoy. Near the end of the 1930s, Wheelan teamed with Bill Walsh on Big Top, a circus strip.[1]

Comic books

In the early 1940s, DC Comics brought back Minute Movies as a feature in 58 issues of Flash Comics. In 1944, Max Gainespublished the Edgar Wheelan Joke Book with Wheelan's Fat and Slat characters, who returned in their own title, Fat and Slat, which ran for four quarterly issues in 1947 and 1948. The book also featured Wheelan's "Comics" McCormick ("The World's #1 Comic Book Fan").

In the late 1940s, Wheelan drew Foney Fairy Tales, fairy tale parodies that ran as a feature in Wonder Woman and Comic Cavalcade.[2]

After leaving comics, Wheelan created paintings of clowns. He died in 1966 in Fort Myers, Florida.[1]

Reprints

In 1972, Woody Gelman reprinted Minute Movies in his Nostalgia Comics.

Margaret Caroline Bruce Wells (née Bruce; 13 June 1909 – 4 December 1998) was a British artist known for her use of woodcut and linocut techniques.[1]

Biography

Although born in Murthly in Perthshire, Wells attended Queen Margaret School in Scarborough before returning to Scotland in 1928 to study at the Glasgow School of Art.[2] In 1933 she moved to London to study at the Leon Underwood's Brook Green School.[2][3] In 1935 Wells became his studio assistant and for a time lived in the Underwood's home.[2] Wells developed a passion for fishing and in 1935 produced two sets of prints on the subject, Fishing for Bleaks and Ells by Night which were well received.[4] During World War II, Wells served as an ambulance driver and in 1951 she married George Wells, a dermatologist. The couple lived in Chicago for several years during which time Wells studied at the city's Art Institute.[2]

During her career Wells exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the Society of Wood Engravers and became an honorary member of the latter in 1995.[2] She lived in Suffolk for the last two decades of her life and continued working until her death at Sibton.[1] Prints by Wells are held in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and in the British Government Art Collection.[2][4][5]

$480 each 

ADU 

Bamboo White Mirror $50

Southwestern New Mexico Dresser $100

Twin Bed - we have 2 $100 each 

White Lamp $25

Drexel Passage side table cabinet $150

WHite Lamp $20

VIntage Hans Wenger CH23 Dining chair $250

Mid Century Modern Book case with Glass $100

White tile dining table $10 

Chairs $50 each

Beanbag $35

Boys Room 

Thanka $250

Lane Accent Table $200

Marble Square Column lamp $125

Vintage 1960’s Torica Celestial Astro-Globe Japan Space Race $500

Jacobean Revival Cabinet $500

vintage 1970s bedspread $40

Pendleton Vintage Multicolor Stripe Wool Blanket $100

Robert Maxwell Vase $200 - might be Robert Coronel for Design West $100

Our Main character was tall. 

Vintage Clothes and Shoes - shoes size 9 -10 

Clothes Size small medium 

Art Chess Set $100

Moroccan Rug Runner $125

Peruvian Tapestry $100

Large appx 14” Chalcedony Drusy Quartz $400

Brutalist metal farden sculpture $100

Black and Whote Photopgrpahs $20 each

Lot of Enamal making supplies 

Ikki Matsumoto 

Ikki Matsumoto (Japanese / American, 1953-). Serigraph of a bird, Anhinga. Pencil signed and with red seal lower right, numbered 375/750 in pencil lower left. 28" x 20 1/4" (with frame 37 3/4" x 28 7/8") $250

Tokio Miyasjita WORK V-6, color etching, signed in pencil, from the numbered edition 35, image 20 ½ x 14”, sheet 27 x 20” $100

Lain Singh  Bangdal 

20 X 24” $2000

A twentieth century polymath, Bangdel became Nepal's preeminent modern artist, as well as acclaimed novelist, art historian, preservationist, and academic who played a pivotal role in shaping the history of art in South Asia. Whilst he was born in Darjeeling, India to a family from Eastern Nepal, he grew up in Bengal, where his family had migrated to find work. 

In 1939, he attended the Government College of Art & Craft in Calcutta, and despite dreaming of his homeland and the mountain range that enveloped it, his early works were focussed on the architecture of Calcutta. He lived in Calcutta for a decade before departing for the United Kingdom and France. He imbibed the art scene and what it offered and continued to experiment with diverse subjects, before moving to Kathmandu in 1961. 

Kathmandu Valley was painted in the early 1970s, shortly after Bangdel's return from the United States, where he had been a Fulbright Scholar from 1968-69. It was here that he was impacted by the works of abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. 

His works subsequently evolved and his abstract style, the roots of which can be traced to Calcutta and Europe, became bolder. In Kathmandu Valley Bangdel turns his attention from the sublime, staggering peaks of the Himalayas to the rolling, lush environs of the Kathmandu Valley. 

He uses passages of gold, ochre, red and emerald—streaked with black—to carve out a tranquil, embracing landscape outside of Nepal's bustling capital, Kathmandu. Bangdel creates a gentle sense of dimension with this land, enough to evoke the terraced farming in the hills and valleys of Nepal that enables the region's agricultural production. Painted over a decade after Moon over Kathmandu (1962), this work utilizes the fragmented style Bangdel once deployed to render metropolitan spaces, exchanging the urban subject for pastoral tranquillity.

Ed Wheelen Originals $110 each 

Vintage Martz lamp Ceramic Striped $200

Large Karastan Persian Rug $1500

Natalie Grauer also known as Kathleen 

Natalie Grauer was born in Wilmington, Delaware and studied art in New York at the Art Student's League, the National Academy of Design (graduating in 1918) and privately in New York under Russian émigré Alexander Archipenko.  In 1924 she attened the Art Institute of Chicago.  That same year she came to Cleveland after marrying fellow artist William Grauer.  Together they established an independent art school in Cleveland.

In 1932, Grauer began summering in West Virginia, where from 1932 to 1942 she co=directed the Old White Art School and Colony at White Sulphur Springs.  She also founded the Old White Art Gallery at Greenbrier, West Virginia.  In 1935 she became an instructor in portraiture at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University, where she and her husband were instrumental in founding the university's art department.

Known for her portraiture and figures, Grauer painted many well-known professional and historical figures, among them the equestrian portrait of Robert E. Lee for The Greenbriar Hotel in 1932.  She was a frequent exhibitor in May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, often winning prizes, and the International Watercolor Exhibit.  Grauer was also included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art, The National Academy of Design, The Carnegie Museum and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Submitted by Christine Fowler Shearer, Director, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio